What’s next for the troubled Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, which has seen just half of the approved 6,430 apartments built, and still needs major infrastructure investment—an expensive two-block platform over a working railyard—to complete the rest?
The two-phase platform would enable six towers and fulfill the project’s eight acres of open space by adding five more. But looming is the 2025 affordable housing deadline negotiated in 2014, which comes with $2,000 a month fines for each unfinished unit.
An Overlooked Risk of Extreme Heat in NYC and Nationwide: Maternal Health Extreme heat from climate change has the potential to exacerbate racial disparities in the five boroughs’ maternal health outcomes. Still, climate change and maternal health often remain two separate policy conversations, both locally and nationally. Read the story.
Orgs That Help Tenants Sue Landlords Fear ‘Tone Deaf’ City Contract Changes Nonprofit legal service providers often file group lawsuits that assist tenants fighting landlord harassment across an entire building. But a new solicitation appears to impose limits on this preferred strategy for winning repairs and rent reductions. Read the story.
Opinion: City Council Must Act to Keep NYPD Radio Transmissions Public
“An independent, informed press is an essential check against the police, and it is critical that police radios remain open for journalists to monitor police actions and breaking news events.”
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¿En qué consisten los planes RAD/PACT y Preservation Trust de NYCHA? A los residentes de conjuntos de viviendas públicas en la ciudad de Nueva York se les está presentando dos propuestas destinadas a desbloquear financiación para reparaciones: Pacto para preservar la asequibilidad permanente juntos (o Permanent Affordability Commitment Together o PACT por sus siglas en inglés) o la Fundación para la Preservación de la Vivienda Pública (Preservation Trust). ¿En qué se diferencian? Leer el artículo.
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